"I wouldn't suffer like this for just anyone- you're the only one I want to suffer for..."

Today's Name That Band will be pretty hard. I don't know of anyone else who for sure knows this, but someone might surprise me. I'll let you all know tomorrow what it was, and then I'll suggest that everyone listen to it. I just want to lie down and listen to Death Cab For Cutie today. Hmmm... what a great band. and no, thats not the answer for todays Name That Band contest.

Today is Good Neighbor Day and National Be A Millionaire Day. And its also my day to do dishes...
Happy Birthday to:
William Thornton, 1759 <--FIRST TO TELL ME WHAT BUILDING HE DESIGNED WINS A PRIZE!!
Craig Patrick, 1946
Cher Bono, 1946
Michael D Crapo, 1951 (haha! someone from idaho on a list of 'famous' people! whats going on)
Joseph Sinnott Edwards, 1964 (definitely not a stud he made the FBI's most wanted list though)
Jason York, 1970
Niklas Andersson, 1970 (played for Sweden and the Islanders)

Happy Deathday to:
John XXI, 1277 (Petrus Juliani/Hispanus, Portuguese Pope)
Bernardinus van Siena, 1444
Christopher Columbus, 1506
Marquis de Lafayette, 1834
John Clare, 1864 (has anyone read anything by Clare?)
Ratu Agung-Agung Gd‚ Ngurah, radja van Mataram, 1895
Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, 1900 (I love people named Gustav. there are so many cool Gustav's in Earth's history. maybe i should change my name)

Things that happened on this day but not this year:
Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria, 526
Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed, 1293
Shoes were first made for both right & left feet, 1310
D Hyde patents fountain pen, 1830 <--- FIRST TO SAY WHAT THE "D" STANDS FOR WINS!!
George Sampson patents clothes dryer, 1892
Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies, 1926 (hmm...)
Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland for that one famous thing she did..., 1932
Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention, 1940
Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship, 1959
Rebel XD (rappa) hits 674 syllables in 54.9 seconds, 1992 (12.2 syllables per second!)

And today's word listing:
Cavil; v., To raise a trivial or frivolous objection
Abecadarian; n., One who is learning the alphabet, or one engaged in teaching the alphabet

And your Irish word for today:
Word: tír
Meaning: land, country
Usage:
ar muir agus ar tír (ehr MOOir uhguhs ehr CHEER; OO as in wood) = on sea and on land
Tír Eoghain (CHEER OH-win) = Tyrone (Land of Eoghan), a county in the middle of Ulster
Tír agus Teanga! (CHEER uh-guhs CHANG-guh) Land and Language!
(a well-known old slogan)
History: Old Irish "tír" and Welsh "tir" derive via the reconstructedInsular Celtic "tíros" from the Indo-European root *ters- (to dry),with a simple dichotomy at work: water is wet and land is dry. Cognatesinclude "terra", "terrain" and "terrace".

And the quotes:
"The only winner of the war of 1812 was Tchaikovsky" Solomon Short

"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people." F.M. Hubbard

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else." Woody Allen

"I hate mankind for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am." Joseph Baretti

"He is suffering from Politician's Logic. 'Something must be done, this is something, therefore it must be done' " Yes, Prime Minister (UK tv show)

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." Oscar Wilde

"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." John Donne

AND HERE IS THE QOUTE THAT DESCRIBES ME BETTER THAN ANY OF THE REST OF 'EM!
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" Henry Ward Beecher

Heehee! today has been pretty good so far, and I haven't even done anything yet. I wrote this, which is almost always fun. It was today. And I talked to a few cool people online, and when I woke up this morning there was a message from my friend Amy (but she didnt say which one, she only left clues... I'm guessing Amy Hansen!) and I got a phone call from Maryland, which was pretty awesome. And I listened to this song that I've never heard before and made it my subject line. It's a pretty cool (though its a little short) song. And I also just went out in the front yard and helped my mom figure out where we want our new flowerbed, and the shape of it, etc. we decided that we want a little bush. But junipers are the devil, so we're not doing those. I think they should be against the law to plant those.

And as much as I'd like to keep typing random things, I have only eaten one meal in the last two days, so I think I'll go eat something. I'm not hungry though. Oh well. Talk to y'all later (I'm not really a cowboy, I just don't know any better way to specify 2nd person plural in English)
Peace Out,
"voiced bilabial stop followed by a voiced alveolar retroflex liquid followed by a dipthong (primary stress syllable) consisting of the lax low mid vowel and the lax high frontal vowel followed by an unstressed schwa and ending with a voiced alveolar nasal"